The Lawfare Podcast: ISIS in America: Disrupting Retweets from Raqqa
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week, we asked Lorenzo Vidino and his co-author, Seamus Hughes, both from the George Washington University Program on Extremism, into the studio to discuss their new report, “ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa.” Their study looked at the 71 Americans charged with ISIS-related activities. So what commons denominators did they find within the group? How much of a role does social media play in radicalization and recruitment? And what should law enforcement do to counter violent extremism? We discuss all that and more.
It’s the Lawfare Podcast Episode #151: ISIS in America: Disrupting Retweets from Raqqa.
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| 1:20.2 | Open in the report with the story of the two newlyweds from Mississippi. |
| 1:24.8 | Small town Mississippi, she's a convert, African American prom queen, cheerleader and high |
| 1:30.4 | school daughter of a local police officer. |
| 1:33.6 | When converts and she's quite radical, Mary's son of an imam and they decide to go and |
| 1:41.4 | have children which are called the cups for the future cups of the caliphate. |
| 1:45.6 | I think you have a lot of these very random cases of young people that need some kind of |
| 1:52.8 | direction in life getting fetched away to be strong message. |
| 1:55.5 | It is sort of the cool counter culture of today. |
| 1:58.8 | There's really no other strong counter society message but what's more anti-society, anti-establishment |
| 2:06.8 | than ISIS? |
| 2:08.8 | I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast December 19, 2015. |
| 2:15.3 | That was Lorenzo Vidino who recently co-authored a new report entitled ISIS in America from |
| 2:20.5 | retweets to Rocca discussing the path to radicalization experienced by some of ISIS's most |
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